From: Ira Kapitonova in Kyiv (Day 703):
The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed.
Psalm 103:6
On January 27, we remember the Holocaust victims. Those were the sad days in Ukraine as well.
But the Russians, while destroying Ukraine, also destroy the memory. On March 1, 2022, Russian missiles (aimed at the Kyiv TV tower) fell on the Babyn Yar, the burial place of Holocaust victims in Kyiv. On March 27, 2022, Russian missiles hit a memorial center on the outskirts of Kharkiv, where about 20,000 Jews were killed during the Nazi occupation. On May 19, 2022, the Russians demolished the only synagogue in the occupied East of Ukraine, leaving behind a mount of bricks.
What breaks my heart the most is that some of those who miraculously survived the Holocaust perished in this present genocide of the Ukrainian nation.
The other day, the phrase “We’ll never forget. We’ll never forgive” caught my eye, and I’ve been thinking about it. We definitely must never forget. And we can only pray God will help us forgive once justice is restored.
Voice of Ukraine 